VR·27
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| Inscription | |
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| Reading in transliteration: | es |
| Reading in original script: |  
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| Object: | VR·27 Verona (bowl) |
| Position: | bottom, outside |
| Direction of writing: | ambiguous |
| Script: | unknown |
| Letter height: | 2.5–5.5 cm0.984 in <br />2.165 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 2 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 150–50 BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
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| Sources: | Marchesini & Stifter 2018: 153 (no. 4) |
Commentary
First published in Solinas 2016: 376 (no. 4).
Images in Solinas 2016: tav. LV d; Marchesini & Stifter 2018: fig. 4.5.4 (photo and drawing).
Epsilon is large and unambiguous, whereas putative sigma is less than half its height and rather flat. The direction of writing is ambiguous – epsilon is sinistroverse, when the bowl is upright, but both Solinas and Marchesini prefer a dextroverse reading.
Stifter in Marchesini & Stifter 2018: 147 suggests that es could be an abbreviation, conceivably of a name otherwise attested at the necropolis (see eskikorikos), but the execution of the present inscription is suspect. It cannot be excluded that we are concerned with a mark of some kind.
